Quick Installation Guide Debian Based Copyright © 2021 Apache OpenOffice.org Documentation Team Legal Notice Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is found at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.html Contributor Marcia K Wilbur Quick Install Guide 4.x– GNU Linux (Debian Based) 2 Pre-Installation: Remove LibreOffice If Libreoffice is on the system, remove libreoffice. As root or sudo: apt-get remove --purge libreoffice* libexttextcat-data* apt-get autoremove Install OpenOffice.org Step 1. Download the package https://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html Step 2. Extract files tar xvzf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.8_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz Step 3. Installation dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/*.deb dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/*.deb Verify installation. Step 4. Open Writer Click the Writer option. Step 5. Setup OpenOffice.org 3 Quick Install Guide 4.x– GNU Linux Enter the user first name, last name and initials. This will only be required one time after installation and apply to Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math and Writer. Click Next. Quick Install Guide 4.x– GNU Linux (Debian Based) 4 Enter the First Name, Last Name and initials. Click Finish. The OpenOffice logo displays. OpenOffice Writer opens and is ready to use. 5 Quick Install Guide 4.x– GNU Linux Quick Install Guide 4.x– GNU Linux (Debian Based) 6.